It’s certainly not the arrest we were expecting…after all we had been led to believe that a big fish would be the first charged in what has been dubbed “the immigration scandal”. But an arrest is an arrest and today, forty-seven year old Therese Cabral of number fifty-six Vernon Street in Belize City was escorted […]
They were given a one-way ride back to Havana on Thursday, but a group of Cubans who entered Belize illegally did not go without putting up a fight…even in the air. Reports to News 5 are that one of the deportees somehow managed to loosen his handcuffs and caused quite a commotion on the plane, […]
Occasionally we receive comments from civil libertarians complaining that the practice of showing accused criminals on television is a violation of their constitutional right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. The question is a legitimate one…but there is another side of the story. On Monday we ran footage of a man accused of a […]
Two young men of St. Matthew’s Village on the Western Highway have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and burglary. Police say that seventeen year old Rudolph Young and nineteen year old Richard Trapp are the men who earlier this month entered the home of nineteen year old Bing Chen and robbed the occupants […]
This Sunday the Pallotti Music School invites you to two hours of relaxation at the Belize Biltmore Hotel. Former students will be playing several classical favourites while at the same time raise some much-needed cash for the music school. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods caught up with two of the guest performers as they were busy […]
The case against the Chalillo project has finally reached the Privy Council in London. On Wednesday a three judge panel heard arguments on whether to grant the environmental group BACONGO an injunction against further construction on the dam until such time as the substantive case can be heard on its merits. In addition to British […]
It may not be the biggest of Belize’s many summer programmes for kids, but the children who assembled this week at the M.C.C. Grounds were not short-changed on fun. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting They may aspire to become star players like Vallan Symms, Charlie Slusher or Norman “Tilliman” Nunez, but for the moment these children between […]
You see them everywhere on the streets of Belize City: young men with big guns. No, not gang boys; we’re talking about the B.D.F…and the concept of soldiers as policemen. Janelle Chanona, Reporting It is perhaps the most visual reminder of the crime situation in Belize…armed police officers flanked by M-16 carrying members of the […]
